Spanish Harlem native Lyman Good fights Jim Wallhead next Friday in the main event of Bellator's season seven premiere.Bellator

Lyman Good had a bully problem in high school. Or rather, bullies had a Lyman Good problem.

The Spanish Harlem native went to four city high schools and was kicked out of three. He never graduated, instead getting his GED.

Growing up in the urban area, he saw gang bangers preying on his neighborhood. Good refused to let something similar happen in an academic environment.

“There were people there I couldn’t deal with,” Good said of high school. “I dealt with a lot of anti-bullying. I got into a lot of fights with people who would pick on other people. That kind of thing just set my blood boiling. It was something I couldn’t deal with. That was my problem.”

Good gets paid to beat people up now. He was the first-ever Bellator Fighting Championships welterweight titleholder and next Friday he begins his quest to get back what he feels is rightfully his.

The 27-year-old will travel down to nearby Atlantic City to main event Bellator’s seventh season premiere. Good takes on Jim Wallhead in the quarterfinals of the company’s eight-man welterweight tournament. The winner gets a title shot against champion Ben Askren, who beat Good for the title in October 2010.

“That’s something that was once mine that I worked really hard for,” Good said. “This is my retribution, proving myself all over again.”

Good, 27, started training in MMA at Tiger Schulmann in the Flatiron District when he was 19, right after leaving his fourth high school, Manhattan Center. It was his mother’s idea, Good said, as a means of getting out of the rough neighborhood.

“I had a lot of anger issues,” Good said. “I was very pent up. I guess I figured out a way to release.”

He won his first 10 pro fights, including the Bellator season one welterweight tournament, before Askren beat him by decision. Good made the Bellator season four welterweight semifinals last year, but lost a controversial split decision to Rick Hawn. In April, he knocked out LeVon Maynard in just 13 seconds to earn a berth in this season’s tournament.

Good (12-2) expects a huge amount of fans at Caesars Atlantic City next week, a card that will be aired live on MTV2. He said Tiger Schulmann students and instructors will be coming in from throughout the area to root him on.

“You’re definitely gonna be seeing some heads in there,” Good said.

Wallhead (23-6), a judo black belt from England, is a tough opponent with much more experience than Goood. Wallhead has fought all over the world, but Good will have the home cage advantage next Friday.

“I’m ready,” Good said. “It’s pretty much prime time. Just counting down the days.”